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Biography
Judit is a curator, producer and researcher currently Director of the MFA Fine Art and MFA Curatorial Practice (Art&Design) Programmes at DJCAD, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at University of Dundee.
Judit has Postgraduate Degrees in Art History (BA/MA ELTE, Budapest, 2002), and in Arts Management (MA Dartington College of Arts, University of Plymouth, 2005) and gained her practice-led curatorial PhD in 2017 from Aberystwyth University through an AHRC CDA with the National Museum of Wales archiving and exhibiting artist Ivor Davies' Destruction in Art related performance practice.
Judit has worked as a curator and creative producer before joining Dundee, including at Artpool, Budapest; East Street Arts, Leeds; and WAVEparticle, Glasgow, and has taught in Higher Education Institutions, including Dartington College of Arts; York St John University; and The Glasgow School of Art.
Between 2008 and 2020, Judit has collaborated with artists Emmal Bolland and Tom Rodgers as Gordian Projects, and curated and produced several site-specific installations and performance events, including Contexts (Konteksty), 9th International Festival of Ephemeral Art (Sokolowsko, Poland), The Market of Hidden Labours (York, 2013), Three Points of Contact residency (Glasgow-Penzance-York, 2012), Compass: Festival of Live Art, (Leeds-Sheffield-Hull, 2010), Hidden Art Cornwall (Godolphin House, 2008), Elegia by Roger Bourke (Holy Trinity Church, York, 2008).
She also co-curated major exhibitions, including The Happenstance, Scotland's Collateral Event at the 16th Architecture Biennial, Venice (2019), Left Performance Histories (NGbK, Berlin, 2018) and Silent Explosion: Ivor Davies and Destruction in Art (National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, 2016).
Since her PhD, Judit has focused her research on developing infrastructure to safeguard non-standard artist archives emerging from post-1970s countercultural and networked art practices. She has led two major research projects to date, including What is a Living Archive? Curating the 'unruly' materiality of contemporary art (curatonglivingarchives.network, 2021) and Curating the Digital Attic: A Case Study for Open-Source Approaches to Artists' Archives (2024-2026), the latter as an international research network in partnership with National Library of Scotland, University of Dundee Archives, National Irish Visual Art Library and Artpool Art Research Center at Museum of Fine Art, Budapest.
Judit has led the Creative Economies Knowledge Exchange Hub at the Scottish Graduate School of Arts and Humanities in 2023-2024, is Member of CHEAD Research, Innovation and Knowledge Exchange Alliance served and Trustee of Generator Projects, Dundee and The Alastair Gray Archive, Glasgow.
Judit’s writings have been published by Routledge, Palgrave MacMillan, Taylor&Francis, Brill, Trancript Verlag, Occassional Papers and Apparatus Journal.
Research interests
- Living archives, anarchives
- Curatorial practice as conservation
- Artist archives
- Performance art and networked art practices
- Post-1970s counterculture
Education/Academic qualification
Doctor of Philosophy, Exhibiting the Ivor Davies Archive of Destruction in Art: an exploration of curating historical performance art in the Museum, Aberystwyth University
1 Oct 2013 → 30 Sept 2017
Award Date: 13 Apr 2018
Master of Arts, The Problems and Opportunities of Extending the Life of Performance Art through Archiving and Curating Civil Twilight, University of Plymouth
2004 → 2005
Award Date: 12 Oct 2005
Bachelor of Arts, Eötvös Loránd University
1997 → 2002
Award Date: 1 Jun 2002
External positions
External Examiner, University of Plymouth
1 Aug 2025 → 31 Jan 2028
Trustee
23 Apr 2023 → 31 May 2025
Trustee
1 Dec 2022 → …
Creative Economies Knowledge Exchange Hub Lead, Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities
Jun 2022 → Sept 2024
External Examiner, University of Southampton
1 Sept 2021 → 31 Dec 2025
Research Innovation and Knowledge Exchange (RIKE) , Council for Higher Education in Art and Design (CHEAD)
1 Nov 2020 → …
Advisory Board Member
31 Mar 2020 → 1 Jan 2024
Keywords
- NX Arts in general
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being
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SDG 4 Quality Education
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SDG 5 Gender Equality
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SDG 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth
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SDG 9 Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
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SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities
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SDG 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities
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SDG 12 Responsible Consumption and Production
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SDG 13 Climate Action
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SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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The Open-Source Artists Archives Network. The Attic Archive As Case Study - Joint with The Glasgow School of Art
Bodor, J. (Investigator)
1/12/23 → 31/07/26
Project: Research
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What Is A Living Archive? Curating The Unruly Archives Of Contemporary Art
Bodor, J. (Investigator)
31/01/21 → 30/01/22
Project: Research
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archivuminternetwork. 30 years of artpool.hu
Bodor, J. (Curator), 21 May 2026Research output: Non-textual form › Exhibition
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DJCAD Research EXPO 2024
Bodor, J. (Curator), 31 Mar 2024Research output: Non-textual form › Exhibition
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DJCAD Research EXPO 2024: Clown I and Clown II, Paintings, L5 Galleries Matthew Building, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, Dundee
Roberts, A. (Artist) & Bodor, J. (Curator), 2024Research output: Non-textual form › Exhibition
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DJCAD Research EXPO 2024
Bodor, J. (Curator), 2 Mar 2024Research output: Non-textual form › Exhibition
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Garden As Canvas: A curatorial manual based on the University of Dundee Botanic Gardens
Stopper, K. (Lead / Corresponding author), Frediani, K. & Bodor, J., 2024, University of Dundee. 35 p.Research output: Book/Report › Other report
Open Access
Prizes
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Outstanding Contribution to the Research Community
Bodor, J. (Recipient), 26 Jun 2023
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Activities
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Teaching Observation and Feedback
Bodor, J. (Advisor)
10 Feb 2026Activity: Other activity types › Other
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John G Boehme
Bodor, J. (Host)
23 May 2025 → 25 May 2025Activity: Hosting a visitor types › Hosting an academic visitor
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The Biggest Reveal: A practice-based enquiry into representations of explicit non-binary bodies in contemporary art
Bodor, J. (Examiner)
20 Feb 2025Activity: Examination types › Examination
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Curating The Digital Attic Research Network Meeting #3: Preserving performance art archives panel discussion
Bodor, J. (Organiser), Romano, D. (Organiser), MacLennan, A. (Contributor), Connolly, B. (Contributor) & Johnston, S. (Contributor)
8 Apr 2025 → 10 Apr 2025Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Other event
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A Curator Speaks: The politics of Curatorial Discourse
Bodor, J. (Examiner) & Sheikh, S. (Examiner)
13 Feb 2025Activity: Examination types › Examination
Press/Media
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Left Performance Histories. Recollecting Artistic Practices in Eastern Europe
16/05/19
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research
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Agnieszka Roguski on "Left Performance Histories" in the new society for fine arts, Berlin
1/06/18
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research
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‘Left Performance Histories: A Kelet Europai Mult Jelene'
21/03/18
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research
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